Just about sums it up
Jul. 14th, 2006 10:47 amA post on the Gutshot forum:
Would you boys at the Gutshot be interested in a Team Tournament featuring the local poker clubs?
The Gutshot, The Western, Equal Chance, Full House, RiverCard etc could play each other home and away in a 10 man team to see who has the best poker players. No doubt we could get some sponsorship or each club could put up some money into a prize pot.
Sometimes you just sit here and wish that the fad for the game would end, so that the team players could go back to their football, leaving poker to individualists.
More interesting was a post on a blog about life in general. I can't remember how I arrived at the bloody blog, so I can't get the exact quote, but it ran roughly along the lines of:
Poker is for people who want the long run to have a chance. Real life is like playing $20-$40 limit on a $200 bankroll.
Wow, perceptive, or what? In an instant, you can explain that the reason that you play poker is because you are risk-averse, and that poker is the best way to exploit this. My own playing at a low level compared with my bankroll is just an extreme example of risk aversion within the poker fraternity.
But, think about it. People take massive gambles in real life, all the time, and they have no choice in the matter. And in these cases it often isn't a case of rebuilding your bankroll. It's "get it right first time, or you are fucked".
Would you boys at the Gutshot be interested in a Team Tournament featuring the local poker clubs?
The Gutshot, The Western, Equal Chance, Full House, RiverCard etc could play each other home and away in a 10 man team to see who has the best poker players. No doubt we could get some sponsorship or each club could put up some money into a prize pot.
Sometimes you just sit here and wish that the fad for the game would end, so that the team players could go back to their football, leaving poker to individualists.
More interesting was a post on a blog about life in general. I can't remember how I arrived at the bloody blog, so I can't get the exact quote, but it ran roughly along the lines of:
Poker is for people who want the long run to have a chance. Real life is like playing $20-$40 limit on a $200 bankroll.
Wow, perceptive, or what? In an instant, you can explain that the reason that you play poker is because you are risk-averse, and that poker is the best way to exploit this. My own playing at a low level compared with my bankroll is just an extreme example of risk aversion within the poker fraternity.
But, think about it. People take massive gambles in real life, all the time, and they have no choice in the matter. And in these cases it often isn't a case of rebuilding your bankroll. It's "get it right first time, or you are fucked".